Keeping Your Child’s Homeschool Curriculum Fresh

One of the most important factors in designing the homeschooling year ahead is deciding on the curriculum you’re going to teach. However, if you focus on what you’re going to teach and not how you teach it, it’s easy for lessons to become stale. Let's look at how you can make your lessons a lot more engaging by finding ways to keep your homeschool curriculum fresh without losing the lessons you want to teach.

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Incorporate what they love into their learning

For children that have difficulty keeping their attention and engagement on their lessons, it’s always a good move to alter them to make them more appealing to them. One of the best ways to do that is to incorporate what they love, whether it’s finding ways to apply lessons to Disney films, or something else entirely. Children’s media has been making learning palatable for generations now, so it’s worth doing your research for fun, new educational shows to watch and talk about together.

Make sure you have a variety of different materials to work with

You don’t have to drastically deviate from the traditional academic style of learning if you feel like lessons are getting too loose. However, it can help your child to find worksheets and tests from other sources. There are a lot of free sites like Cazoom Math that can give you more variety in your curriculum and how you encourage your child to learn subjects in different ways. What’s more, it’s important to see how others educate to learn to improve your own approach.

Don’t keep the studying to paper and books alone

Not all learning has to be done at a desk with a pencil in hand. There are active learning ideas, such as those shown at Our Journey Westward, that can make lessons a lot more physically engaging as well. It’s a good way to tap into the learning styles of more active children, and it can play an important role in developing their attitude to exercise, their dexterity, hand-eye coordination, and more.

Change up the learning environment

One of the biggest drawbacks of the traditional education is the limited nature of their learning environment. Being stuck in a classroom day after day may not be the most productive way to teach. The same goes for your own homeschooling efforts, of course. Consider arranging field trips with educational purposes, whether it’s to the park, the zoo, a local museum, or whatever else you have locally available. You can even look for homeschooling parent groups online who are looking to arrange group trips so you can add a social learning element to the excursion, as well.

While you shouldn’t underestimate your child’s capacity to study, it’s also important to recognize that everyone learns differently. Trying your curriculum in different styles and formats can help you discover what works best for them. The above tips are only examples, so feel free to do your own research and come up with the approach that suits you both best.

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